Comments on: New Study of Antarctic Ice Loss

By: Jordan Davies

Jordan Davies — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:59:40 +0000

edit of previous post:meant to ask “have there been any further advances on the study conclusion..”

By: Jordan Davies

Jordan Davies — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:48:07 +0000

This is an excellent report of the study mentioned.Have there been any further advances on your conclusion supporting (or even going against) what has been concluded here, by investigating the other factors of glacier dynamics on the mass balance of the Antarctic Ice Sheets?Thanks.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:32:40 +0000

Excellent retort. I’ll have to remember that next time I say something that is totally wrong and get called on it (which is probably about to happen over on my gun control post, by the way)Anyway, V, I’m glad to see that by implication you admit that anthropocentric global warming is a real problem!

By: vanderleun

vanderleun — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:17:26 +0000

“the science indicates that Antarctica is melting away into the ocean.”Humm, could have sworn Antarctica was a continent with a sizable land mass. Perhaps I have my the poles reversed.

By: vanderleun

vanderleun — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:14:39 +0000

Really? That’s too bad. I was just beginning to warm to the penguins.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:59:39 +0000

Vanderleun:You annoy us with your self serving junk science. What is the meaning of “a margin of error is 91 GT”? Do you not understand what a margin of error is? It is of something, and that something must have a particular magnitude. Plus, if there are multiple margins of error one might avoid citing the one that matches your particular pathetic political orientation out of those available.91 gigatonnes is a very trivial amount of 1400 or so gigatonnes, which is the lower end of the basic H2O budget we’ve got going here for the continent.Using the different ways of calculating this water budget, all the different ways produce positive output in relation to input, and there are no negative values within your precious margin of error. Sorry, but the science indicates that Antarctica is melting away into the ocean.Go away.(If I get to it I may post the table from the report later on. Thanks for your suggestion.)

By: vanderleun

vanderleun — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:10:20 +0000

One would think that, just for the sake of clarity, you’d mention that the margin of error cited in the report is 91 gigatonnes. Not exactly a trivial amount.